Races for select board, school committee highlight April 26 Milton town election ballot

Fred Hanson, The Patriot Ledger
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MILTON – Open seats on three major town boards have attracted large fields of candidates for the April 26 town election.

Three of the four candidates for two seats on the select board have experience on the town's warrant committee. Erin Bradley is the current secretary of the committee, and Clinton Graham and Christopher Hart are former members. Also in the race is health board Chair Roxanne Musto.

Select board Chair Katie Conlon and member Melinda Collins are not seeking reelection.

Mary and John Maguire vote in the Milton town election at the Cunningham Community Center.
Mary and John Maguire vote in the Milton town election at the Cunningham Community Center.

Five candidates are seeking two open seats on the school committee. Leroy Walker, who served two terms on the school committee before stepping down in 2017, is one of the candidates. The others are Regina Patrice Campbell-Malone, of Truro Lane; Celina Miranda, of Thacher Street; Maryjane O'Doherty, of Nancy Road; and Anna Varghese, of Thacher Street.

School committee members S. Elaine Craghead and Margaret Eberhardt are not seeking reelection.

The four candidates for the two available planning board seats include one incumbent,Kathleen O'Donnell. Also in the race are Robert Levash, of Brush Hill Road, who is making a second bid for a planning board seat; Margaret Oldfield, of Hillside Street; and Sean Fahy, of Old Farm Road.

Planning board Chair Denny Swenson is not seeking reelection.

Milton High graduate Bobby Carew, 18, cleans each voting booth after use at the Cunningham Community Center in Milton.
Milton High graduate Bobby Carew, 18, cleans each voting booth after use at the Cunningham Community Center in Milton.

There are two other townwide races on the ballot.

Board of health member Mary Stenson is being challenged by Susan Koch-Weser, of Warren Avenue, for a seat on the board.

All three incumbents on the board of library trustees are seeking new terms. They are Hyacinth Crichlow, Raymond Czwakiel and James Potter. Michael Musto, of Milton Street, who ran for library trustee last year, is also running for one of the three available seats.

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Running unopposed for reelection are Town Treasurer James McAuliffe, Town Moderator Robert Hiss, Assessor William Bennett and cemetery trustee Jed Dolan.

Winston Daley, of Eliot Street, is running unopposed for a seat on the park commission.

Incumbents Eric Issner and William Neville, as well as candidates Tamara Berton, of Blue Hills Parkway, and Aldo Binda, of Cypress Road, are unopposed for four constable positions.

Offices carry three-year terms except town treasurer, which is for one year, and cemetery trustee, which is for five years.

This article originally appeared on The Patriot Ledger: Milton town election on April 26 features five races